Akali Patriarch Dal Parkash Singh Badal (center) with party chairman Sukhbir Singh Badal (right) and other leaders address their ‘Rosh’ rally in Rajasansi, near Amritsar, on February 13, 2020 (PTI Photo) . Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said Akali Dal leader Sukhbir Singh Badal’s decision to resign from the NDA …
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Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) Chairman and former Senior Deputy Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday urged all political parties and farmers’ unions to unite against the central government. Sukhbir was in Ludhiana to mobilize party workers for the October 1 protest march against agricultural bills, which would start in the …
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Captain Amarinder Singh said that the Shiromani Akali Dal has become politically irrelevant now New Delhi / Chandigarh: Punjab’s chief minister, Captain Amarinder Singh, has called Shiromani Akali Dal’s decision to resign from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) as nothing more than a “desperate case of political compulsion” for the …
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By: Desk Explained | New Delhi | Updated: September 24, 2020 5:33:11 pm Shiromani Akali Dal MLA Manpreet Ayali (right) and his supporters hold a tractor rally against agricultural bills in Ludhiana on September 23, 2020 (Express photo: Gurmeet Singh). In its opinion article in The Indian Express, Sukhbir Singh …
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Shiromani Akali Dal leader Sukhbir Singh Badal, whose wife Harsimrat Kaur Badal resigned as minister of food processing industries to protest against contentious farm laws, speaks with Sunetra Choudhury on SAD’s resistance to the bill. Edited excerpts: He is about to go see the president to ask him not to …
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A delegation from Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) met with President Ram Nath Kovid on Monday to ask him not to approve the agricultural bills passed by Rajya Sabha (or Upper House of Parliament) on Sunday. These bills have already been approved by the Lok Sabha and await the approval of …
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NEW DELHI: BJP’s oldest ally, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), is considering whether or not to stay in the NDA after the “forced” passage of farm bills in Parliament. The party had opposed the bills. The head of the party, Sukhbir Singh Badal, asked President Ram Nath Kovind to send the …
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Harsimrat Kaur Badal, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader who resigned as the Union’s food processing minister on Thursday night, said on Friday that farmers across India are protesting against the three bills they seek liberalize agricultural markets. Harsimrat Kaur Badal had resigned from the Union Cabinet on Thursday in …
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NEW DELHI: BJP’s oldest ally Shiromani Akali Dal on Thursday he withdrew from Modi’s government in protest against legislation designed to liberalize trade in agricultural products, with his only representative in government: the minister of food processing Harsimrat Kaur Badal – submitting your resignation. Harsimrat, whose resignation was announced in …
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NEW DELHI: BJP’s oldest ally Shiromani Akali Dal on Thursday he withdrew from Modi’s government in protest against legislation designed to liberalize trade in agricultural products, with his only representative in government: the minister of food processing Harsimrat Kaur Badal – submitting your resignation. Harsimrat, whose resignation was announced in …
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